Democratic Society and Human Needs

✍ Scribed by Jeff Noonan

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas; 42
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As anti-globalization protests show, the public is searching for ways to explain and rethink material inequity between developed democracies and those across the development divide. Jeff Noonan provides a strategy for analyzing these issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Renewed Critique of Liberal Capitalism
PART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL MORALITY
1 The Social Context of Early Liberal Theory
2 The Evolution of Rights-Based Social Morality: Hobbes to James Mill
3 Case Study in Anti-Democratic Liberalism: The Property Defence League
4 Liberal Rights-Based Social Morality and Its Social Presuppositions
PART TWO: THE EMERGENCE OF NEEDS-BASED SOCIAL MORALITY
5 Capitalism as Moral Revolution
6 Gerrard Winstanley: Freedom and the Needs of Life
7 The Dialectic of Rights and Needs in the French Revolution
8 Needs and Social Struggles in England and France in the Nineteenth Century
9 Socialism and Democratic Need Satisfaction
PART THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF CLASSICAL LIBERAL SOCIAL MORALITY
10 Social Rights
11 John Rawls: Self-Determination – Moral or Material?
12 Habermas’s One-Dimensional Democracy
13 Chantal Mouffe: The Self-Contradictions of “Political” Democracy
PART FOUR: A PROJECT FOR SOCIAL DEMOCRATIZATION
14 The Reaction Against Social Democratization
15 Needs-Based Social Morality, the Life Ground of Value, and the Good for Human Beings
16 Negotiated Coordination and the Project for a Democratic Society
Bibiliography
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